Walla Walla is the county seat of Walla Walla County in southeastern Washington. It is home to one of the top small private colleges in the country, Whitman College. With just over 34,000 residents (2020),  it is a reasonable size and growing steadily. It makes an excellent retirement community - in fact Money Magazine at one point ranked it as…...

Franklin County is located in Northeast Texas, 72 miles southwest of Texarkana and 96 miles northeast of Dallas on Interstate 30.  Mount Vernon, the county seat, has been selected a Main Street City because of its historic preservation, museums, a diversified community of gifted artists, and a superb quality of life.  Franklin County (population just over 10,000) has been designated…...

Ogden UT,  population 83,000,  is rapidly becoming the place where active adults, including many adventurous baby boomers, can indulge their passion to participate in outdoor sports, especially extreme sports. Snowbasin is a first rate ski mountain about 20 miles from Ogden, and was home to the Olympic Super G and downhill events in the 2002 winter Olympics. The 125,000 square…...

Fredericksburg, Texas is a small town north of San Antonio with a population of about 11,000. Fredericksburg shares many cultural characteristics with New Braunfels, TX, a nearby town that also has a rich German-American heritage. Fredericksburg is justly proud of its pioneer heritage, which is celebrated in places like its Pioneer Museum Complex.  For a town of this size there…...